I did not know that Starlink’s collision avoidance limits was that strict. Interesting. Orbital infrastructure is the clear future. We’ll need everyone to take orbital cleanliness this seriously soon
STARLINK SATS DODGED OVER 207,000 POTENTIAL COLLISIONS IN 6 MONTHS!
SpaceX moved its first- and second-generation Starlink satellites out of harm’s way 207,152 times over six months.
The Space Review reported the figure, citing a SpaceX filing with the FCC on July 1. The company orders a maneuver once the calculated probability of a collision reaches 3 in 10 million.
That threshold is more than 300 times stricter than the 1-in-10,000 benchmark the same filing describes as the industry norm. Probability isn’t the only trigger: SpaceX also applies a minimum safe separation distance between objects.
Maneuvers in the hundreds of thousands are nothing new for the constellation, which has previously logged 355,000 collision-avoidance moves in a single year.